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Unless your product is similar to Dropbox or a side project for fun and giggles, anyone complaining about "insane" AWS costs is building a product with no viable business opportunity, or just doesn't understand all the direct and indirect costs associated with running and maintaining infrastructure in-house.

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Clouds are cheap for CPU. They're really expensive for storage and network. Most services still need to store bits and send bits, viable or not.

I disagree that they are cheap for CPU - compared to AWS, GCP and Azure, you get much more for your money with a VPS.

What are you going on about man? Plenty of companies find AWS at various stages of growth and profitability. When a company chooses to trade velocity for margin varies, and with the looming recession, will likely have different patterns. So many startup wannabes have never lived in a funding scarce environment where costs really matter.

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